#politics

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#marketing #media-of-the-united-states #politician #politics-of-the-united-states #design

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #education

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart. ↗

— Barack Obama

#dreams

Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace. But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#politics #dreams

In contrast to the situation in 1945, the world does not need the US; it is the US that needs the rest of the world ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#dreams

If the USA doesn't start learning how to put personal egos aside for the sustainability of a nation, then these "mighty" United States will be no better than the politically divided commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Where progress is slowed because each party thinks any idea from the other party must be stupid or without validity and Independence has become a distant dream squashed by corruption. I suggest politicians go back to kindergarten to learn the basics in decent humanity. The notions of sharing and respect obviously didn't stick the first time. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#party-politics #politics #puerto-rico #dreams

And new people come in, and it doesn't go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can't silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#along #angeles #column #come #end

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#elected #i #nominated #run #serve

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#committed #how #i #i am #improve

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids. ↗

— Andy Van Slyke

#answer #baseball #better #better player #bush